Xubuntu 10.10 default theme: Bluebird!»

On the Shimmer Project blog, we talk a bit more about Bluebird, the default theme for Xubuntu 10.10. If you’re interested what we’ve been up to, make sure to check the blog out as well as the still work in progress project page for Bluebird.

September 29, 2010 — 5 comments »
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Alternative control?»

For some time, I had a weird problem with VirtualBox. The Ctrl key was working as Alt and the other way around. Madness! This was totally driving me crazy…

Anyway, after a few not-so-serious and a few way-more-serious attempts to fix the issue, I’ve finally found the solution. In the Xfce Settings Manager, under section Keyboard and tab Layout, there’s a check box to either use or not to use system defaults. Apparently, my system default was wrong or this setting was not functioning properly, since as soon as I unchecked the box, VirtualBox seemed to capture the keys right. Hooray!

September 27, 2010 — Comments Off
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Rants for autumn»

Apparently, it takes some time until a laptop with Windows Vista can correctly connect to my wireless network. I wonder if it’s about TKIP+AES?

Getting Thunderbird profile manager open for the first time in Windows is way too slow. Oh, how I love having /usr/bin in my PATH!

What’s with the fat, ugly window borders?

When do they stop to ship useless and ugly OEM software with Windows? Also, start making sense with playing DVD’s! Who wants a DVD player with (ugly) bling when you can have VLC?

Is it too much to ask to not have Windows preinstalled and calculated to the laptop price anyway?

And, finally, is it really so weird not being on Facebook?

September 11, 2010 — Comments Off
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